Inspirational Quotations by Leo Buscalia

  • They may avoid suffering and sorrow,
    But they simply cannot learn,
    Feel, change, grow, love or live.
    From Issue 75
  • To love is to risk not being loved in return.
    To live is to risk dying.
    To hope is to risk despair.
    To try is to risk failure.
    From Issue 87
  • Don't brood.
    Get on with living and loving.
    You don't have forever.
    From Issue 152
  • Don't smother each other.
    No one can grow in shade.
    From Issue 154
  • Death is a challenge.
    It tells us not to waste time...
    It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
    From Issue 163
  • If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement,
    we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
    From Issue 174
  • Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love,
    you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
    From Issue 177
  • There are two big forces at work, external and internal.
    We have very little control over external forces such as
    tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain.
    What really matters is the internal force.
    How do I respond to those disasters?
    Over that I have complete control.
    From Issue 179
  • Find the person who will love you because of your differences
    and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
    From Issue 181
  • What we call the secret of happiness is
    no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
    From Issue 186
  • What love we've given, we'll have forever.
    What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
    From Issue 193
  • Change is the end result of all true learning.
    From Issue 202
  • Your talent is God's gift to you.
    What you do with it is your gift back to God.
    From Issue 209
  • A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
    From Issue 213
  • Love always creates, it never destroys.
    In this lie's man's only promise.
    From Issue 220
  • Only the weak are cruel.
    Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
    From Issue 222
  • Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and
    without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
    From Issue 240
  • Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
    From Issue 246
  • I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...
    I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
    From Issue 247
  • It's not enough to have lived.
    We should be determined to live for something.
    May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
    Sharing what we have for the betterment of person kind,
    Bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
    From Issue 272
  • Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,
    a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
    all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
    From Issue 289
  • I believe that you control your destiny,
    that you can be what you want to be.
    You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it,
    I won't behave his way anymore.
    I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I
    have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.'
    From Issue 292
  • The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower,
    share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's,
    smile at someone and receive a smile in return,
    are to me continual spiritual exercises.
    From Issue 296
  • We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
    From Issue 354

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